Cameras / Rhode Island / Providence
License plate readers in Providence, RI
Volunteers have documented 87 automated license plate readers inside Providence. No other Rhode Island city in this index has more, and Providence alone accounts for 28% of every reader documented in the state. At 4.7 per square mile it is more densely covered than 88% of the 2,231 US cities indexed nationally. Nearly all of them — 98% — are Flock Safety units.
Updated August 14, 2026.
87
readers documented
4.7
per square mile
1st
of 6 indexed Rhode Island cities
28%
of Rhode Island’s documented total
Dot colors follow the manufacturer legend below. Boundary: U.S. Census Bureau, 2025 Cartographic Boundary Files. Locations: © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Who makes them
- Flock Safety85 · 98%
- Unknown2 · 2%
What volunteers recorded
- Monitoring public roads
- 75 cameras are tagged as watching public streets or traffic.
- How they’re mounted
- pole (10), street lamp (1)
- Coverage area
- 18.4 square miles of land inside city limits.
Nearby
Learn more: What a Flock camera looks like · How ALPRs work
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